Call Number : RR-080
Musical Reverberations from the Encounter of Local and Global Belief Systems
The world of music
- Editor - Max Peter Baumann
- Co-Editor - Jonathan P. J. Stock
- Guest Editor - T.M. Scruggs
Abstracts:
The Indigenization of Tamil Christian Music: Musical Style and Liberation Theology
Zoe Sherinian
Historical and ethnographic analysis of the cultural exchange of religion in the context of colonialism reveals that local indigenizers have agency and the adoptive process cannot simply be attributed to cultural imposition that resulted in the destruction of the indigenous culture. Moreover, generations after adoption in the post-colonial period, it has been observed that oppressed groups can continue to re-indigenize or reform the adopted religion by drawing on local liberating cultural forms that continue to make it contextually meaningful.